Data Runner Quotes

“The best way to hide the truth is to shroud it in myth”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“once you start running and apply the mathematics of change, suddenly this insurmountable distance gets crushed under the curve of motion.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“Freedom. The freedom to be, without limits, to the very best of your ability. The freedom to move without fear or reticence and live your life one leap at a time. The freedom to unbind yourself from all those paths that have been constructed for you by society and find your own way through the obstacles. The freedom to write your own physics, accepting nobody’s rules of gravity and space but your own.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“I feel something else break through the numbness. Something raw. Something primal. Something visceral.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“My feet catch the roof like the arrester hook of a fighter jet coming into an aircraft carrier.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“Sooner or later we stop running, stop climbing, stop reaching for the sky. We stop pushing ourselves toward unattainable goals because common sense tells us that the only logical thing to do is push ourselves toward the attainable ones. If running through the world like kids on the playground is a kind of dream, then at a certain point we just stop dreaming.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“She made us realize that human dignity is inalienable, and as long as there is still breath left in your body, there will always be something left to fight for.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“That’s the point of Zeno’s Paradox, isn’t it? Whatever your goal, you’re never more than halfway there.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“The traceur doesn’t knock an obstacle out of the way unless it’s absolutely necessary. He meanders his way past it. Over. Under. Through. Around. He gets past not by moving the obstacle but by moving himself. That is parkour, and working this job I use every technique I know just to get it done.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“The arm that carries the data. That’s your wing.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“standard Superconducting Quantum Interference Device, or SQUID, interface. The same kind doctors use to communicate with surgically implanted components like pacemakers.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“...the bioidentical cortex chip that will be implanted subcutaneously on the inside of your forearm. It is a proprietary biocircuit developed in our labs specifically for this purpose, and it is unlike any other in the world.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“There are no limits, only plateaus.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“But that was then, and then is a world away from now.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“She just keeps stroking and stroking in perfect timing,”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner

“Just then a bullet zips between us. That gets my pants off pretty quick.”
― Sam A. Patel, Data Runner